Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions

From:

Eli Zaretskii

Subject:

Re: Proposal to improve the nomenclature of scrolling directions

Date:

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 21:39:38 +0200

> Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 20:10:39 +0100
> From: Dani Moncayo <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> If we agree that it would be better to adopt the widely accepted
> approach of a moving view port (over an static text)
What "widely accepted approach"? Most applications don't have names
for the commands invoked by keys, they just use "PageDown" the key
name.
There isn't much prior art here, we are on our own.
> Consistency and uniformity are good programming principles that make
> things simpler to learn and remember. So these principles should be
> followed unless there is a good reason not to.
And there are good reasons in this case, as others in this thread
pointed out.